Product Line Manager
Ciena
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Ottawa • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $114,100 - $182,300 per year
About the role
- Work in a cross-functional manner across Ciena’s modem and component teams
- Develop commercialization requirements such as SDK, documentation content, and sales support framework
- Define product strategy and multiyear roadmap for technologies such as CPO, NPO, Advanced optical packaging and Electrical interconnects
- Define commercial offer and pricing structure
- Develop business cases and get approval for new features or initiatives
- Continuously assess customer needs, technology trends, regulatory environment, and major competitors
- Gather feature requirements from key customers
- Develop and maintain strategic product roadmap, priorities, and gap analysis
- Partner with marketing teams to develop product positioning and marketing collaterals
- Work with product line managers and R&D architects in prioritizing features
- Assist sales with coherent modem/components roadmap presentations
- Serve as a key interface between engineering and sales/customers.
Requirements
- Technical degree (BSEE minimum)
- 10+ years technical experience in telecommunications or component industry
- Successful 3+ years of Product Management experience in telecom systems or components
- 8-10+ years of demonstrated experience in relevant areas including FAE and Sales Engineering
- Familiarity with the major players in the optical and electrical interconnect market
- Solid knowledge of high speed interconnect technologies (such as Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), Near Packaged Optics (NPO), Active Electrical cable (AEC), active copper cable (ACC), coherent, direct detect, Serdes, PHYs, electro-optics)
- Technical background and understanding of a wide variety of interconnect technologies
- Solid understanding of how to commercialize interconnect optics and sub-components
- Superb communication, presentation, customer interaction and interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate highly technical matters to non-technical individuals
- Flexible, able to balance multiple tasks with minimal direction
- Self-motivated
- Need to work well with a virtual team or individually as necessary.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision plans
- participation in 401(K) (USA) & DCPP (Canada) with company matching
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- company-paid holidays
- paid sick leave
- vacation time
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Hard Skills & Tools
Product Managementtelecommunicationshigh speed interconnect technologiesCo-Packaged Optics (CPO)Near Packaged Optics (NPO)Active Electrical cable (AEC)active copper cable (ACC)SerdesPHYselectro-optics
Soft Skills
communicationpresentationcustomer interactioninterpersonal skillsflexibilityself-motivatedability to balance multiple tasksworking with virtual teamsworking independently
Certifications
BSEE